60 motifs match “leaving”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tears of Adam and Eve leaving paradise become trees. (Cf. A2681.) A2612.1
• Tabu: leaving corpse at shrine. C51.1.14
• Tabu: leaving a feast before it is ended. C282.1
• Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something. C566.2
• Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it. C566.3
• Tabu: leaving capital every ninth night. C751.6
• Tabu: leaving house within certain time. C755.1
• Tabu: going to (leaving) certain place without combat. C835.3
• Tabu: leaving land entirely unoccupied. C868
• Magic power to see soul leaving body. D1825.3.3.2
• Witch steals potatoes, leaving no traces. D2087.8
• Man disappears, leaving only his ring. D2188.2.1
• Resuscitation by assembling members and leaving in cask for certain time. E37
• Demons cast evil man from grave leaving only his shroud. E411.0.7
• Ghost throws man into ditch, leaving his side numb. E542.3
• Madness from spirit leaving body: comes back with cough. E721.3.1
• Manner of soul's leaving body. E722.2
• Circumstances of soul on leaving dead body. E722.3
• Soul visits places of birth, death, baptism, and burial after leaving body. E722.3.3
• Soul in jeopardy after leaving body. E752.1
• Souls of dead captured on leaving corpse. E752.1.3
• Otherworld island disappears leaving voyagers in boat at sea. F134.2
• Marvelous sensitiveness: clarified butter was someone's leavings. F647.11
• The devil as tailor to a dandy. The dandy demands clothes sewed without thread. The devil disguised as a tailor makes them. In church the dandy's clothes fall to pieces, leaving him naked. G303.9.9.11
• Man leaving home warns wife not to wash face in puddle in dunghill. She does. He cannot understand why; she cannot explain. H473.4
• Task: eating entire goat without leaving a scrap. H1141.4
• King improves kingdom before leaving it to his sons. He leaves it smaller but much stronger and richer. J701.2
• "But by a fine fellow!" Dying toad thus comforts his paramour, the frog, whom he is leaving neither married nor widow nor maiden and pregnant. J865.1
• Needles and anchors. Fox leaving merchant's warehouse: "I had wanted a needle as big as an anchor and an anchor as small as a needle." J1391.8
• The cynic at the bath. Leaving an unclean bath house: "Where can I go now to wash?" J1442.2
• Not in good form. A duke invites a notorious eater. The latter consumes eight fowls, forty eggs, and other things in proportion. In leaving he apologizes for eating so little as he had not felt well the night before. He will do better next time. J1468
• Too large a payment. A student leaving the university sends back a small coin to pay for the knowledge he is carrying away, although he says that he is really paying too much. J1559.3
• The peasant's share is the chicken. He serves small birds and a roast chicken to his guests. Guests each take a small bird, leaving only the chicken when the plate reaches the host. He takes the whole chicken saying: "Since everyone has a bird, I must have one too." J1562.2
• Deceptive division of sheep. Evil chooses lambs, leaving milk to Good. Lambs drink up all milk. K171.7.2
• Robbers frightened by pretended cannibalism. Tricksters threaten to cook a robber. All the robbers flee in terror, leaving them their booty. K335.1.10
• Thief escapes by leaving animal's severed tail and claiming that the animal has escaped and left his tail. K404
• Escape, leaving dog as substitute. K525.6
• Escape by leaving behind false images made of spittle. K525.10
• Murder by leaving poisoned wine. K929.1
• Trickster agrees to carry old woman and girl across stream: carries girl across and rides off with her leaving old woman on other side. K1339.7
• Paramour leaving love-tryst is met by husband. Pretends he had come to see him on business. K1517.10
• The Lord above; the lord below. A husband returning home surprises a woman and her paramour and a numskull who has blundered in. The woman hides the numskull in the bed and the paramour under it. The husband, who is leaving on a journey, lifts his hands to heaven and says, "I commend you to the Lord above." – The numskull: "Commend her rather to the lord below!" K1525
• The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
• Giantess frightened of leaving cave because of hero's statue in entrance. K1726
• Bear frightened away by man threatening to cleave its skull with his penis. He meets a woman who, upon being told what man had threatened, shows him a vestige of the cleaving she once got. Only partly healed. K1755.1
• Disguised man takes bride's place: deserts, leaving a she-goat in his place for the foolish bridegroom. (Cf. K1223.1.) K1836.3
• Wrong sign put out leads to boys' leaving home. They are to be informed by a sign if a sister is born. N344.1
• King, seeing eldest son leaving room, decides that he is a rakshasa. N349.3
• Divorce given to wives before leaving for battle. P557.7
• Punishment for leaving holy orders. (Cf. Q520.5, Q551.3.4.3.) Q226
• Hermit leaving his cell to become robber falls and breaks his neck. He has seen a penitent robber's soul borne to heaven and resolves therefore to be a robber. Q226.1
• Punishment for leaving Palestine. Q232.2.1
• Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Q478.3
• Curse for leaving home. Q556.3
• "Keep it if it is a girl; send it to me if it is a boy." Hero leaving girl says this of the prospective child. T645.2
• Image of Jesus descends from cross and wounds nun leaving convent. V122.1
• Image of Virgin tries in vain to keep nun from leaving convent. V265.1
• Queen mother shames cowardly son and companions. "In truth, gentlemen, you do well in weeping; for since you didn't fight like men to defend your land, it is suitable that now you weep like women on leaving it." W121.4
• Wolves devour an ox without leaving a share for the rightful owner. W151.3
• Man beheads rescuer for leaving him so long in pain. W154.17